The blogs in this category are written to provide ESL/EFL teachers with information, tips and suggestions for their teaching practice and help them understand that successfully teaching English to speakers of other languages (TOEFL) is an exciting way to safeguard the lingua franca for better worldwide communication. Please comment on the following blogs from your own experience:
Grammar can be learned and practiced in segments but can your students keep step with it as moves from segments into a whole melody? Can they shift meanings from one universal skill to another automatically, without thinking and in the dark. If they can't they may have a way to go before reaching mastery. Mastery requires shifting from one moment to another and even within the same sentence. What does it take to...
Many students are reluctant to write so we have to find ways to motivate them. Writing will become a very necessary skill as they get into university or more academic studies. Find ways to personalize writing for your students.
Becoming a raft guide on a river where there could be as many as 300 companies is not easy for a young man in India. Here is how Raj did it...
It seems like there is a world of difference between being a bullfighter to being a yoga teacher. And for Emilio it must have been a quick turn around when he found himself injured for the third time. It marked the end of his career as a bullfighter a sad disappointment but what was in store for Emilio will take your breath away.
Some people are entrepreneurs and some people are not. It takes a certain amount of willingness to take risks to be, and remain, an entrepreneur through thick and through thin. Entrepreneurs can do great things but they are also vulnerable to changes and having to start all over...
There are no opposites when we see the creative force controlling both sides. Are you on one side or the other or can you really be on both sides? Ask yourself the question to see if the tips of porcupine quills are your truth...
Language acquisition is not a matter of learning a language, it is a skill that requires practice, copious practice. This blog focuses on how to channel the practice without overdoing the instruction. Acquisition comes from knowing what has to be done to doing it repeatedly through practice. Test yourself to see if you are the geeky teacher or the patient guide?
ESL/EFL teachers now you can teach modals and grammar through stories that model and explain what you are teaching and are also motivational for students in their lives. It's a win win situation for your students when they study tricky constructions...
Language has hidden connotations that may affect the learner subliminally. How can we find a balance between hopeless constructions and more hopeful alternatives? See how old Greek mythology can lend us a hand...
What are the three most pernicious words in English? The words that never lead us to where we want to go? How guilty are you of using these words and are you willing to throw them out and change your tune...